Media Eye News Bureau: Robert Redford spoke about the #MeToo and Time's Up movements recently at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival as he said, “It’s kind of a tipping point, it’s changing the order of things so that women will have a stronger voice. They didn’t have it before. Too much control by the male dominance. Now I think it’s going to be more even-handed. I think the role for women to be able to step forward and exercise their voices more is a really wonderful thing, and I think the role for men is to listen, let women’s voices be heard, and think about it.”
Sundance Institute executive director Keri Putnam and Sundance Film Festival director John Cooper were present as well. When asked about Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced co-founder of both Miramax Films and The Weinstein Co., who had been a major presence over the years at the fest, Putnam responded, “We were sickened to hear, along with everyone else, about Harvey’s behaviour, and certainly even more so to learn at least a couple of those incidents happened during the Sundance Film Festival. Sundance as an institution never contributed to that behaviour.”
Sundance applied some changes with a code of conduct that applied to its staff and volunteers, this year it would apply to all festival goers as well to build an atmosphere ‘free of harassment, discrimination, sexism, and threatening or disrespectful behaviour.’
